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 FOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 11, 15, 20. 1880. 538 CHAP. 11.-An act for the relief of Thomas Langton, of Dundee, Michigan. Jan. 23, 1880. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Smeg of America in Congress assembled, That fifty-two acres of the south. Thomas Langgast iractional quarter of the northeast fractional quarter of section fi°” "‘?l*°V*’d from twenty-three in township six south, of range six east, in the county of 0$,,°5,%,,§‘ up"' Monroe, State of Michigan, belonging to Thomas Langton be discharged ` of and from all lieu, claim, or title, on the part of the United States thereon and thereto, under and by virtue of the levy of a succession tax upon the estate of Alfred Potter, deceased, and the sale of the above described. land to the United States for said tax: Provided, That one-fourth of the Proviso. amount of the tax assessed against said land upon the nonpayment of which said land was sold, and interest thereon at six per centum per annum trom the day of the sale, be paid into the Treasury of the United States within ninety days from the passage of this act. Approved, January 23, 1880. CHAP. 15.—An act to authorize the assistant treasurer of the United States at New Jn_ 24 I33Q_ York to waive enforcement of section thirty-four hundred and seventy-seven of the —-—-L-.-. Revised Statutes so far as the same affects certain drafts upon him now held by the Masonic Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Whereas on the seventh day of October, eightwn hundred and seventy- Preamble. six, A. B. Carey, paymaster United States Army, did issue his checks , upon the United States assistant treasurer at New York one for eighty- eight dollars and three cents and one for eighty-eight dollars and fifty- three cents, payable to the order of J efferson Mcllwaine; and Whereas, the said Jefferson Mcllwaine did, on the twenty-ninth day of September, eighteen hundred and seventysix, execute his power of attorney to Hugh Mcllwaine, empowering him, the said Hugh Mcllwaine, to indorse any checks or drafts issued by the government made payable to the order of him, the said J efterson Mcllwaine, and Whereas, the Masonic Bank of Pittsburgh did, upon an indorsement of the said checks by the said Hugh Mcllwainc, purchase and pay for the same; and Whereas the Treasury of the United States refuses to redeem said checks because the power of attorney to indorse the same was executed before the checks were issued, instead of after their said "issue, as required by law; and . Whereas, the person to whose order said checks were issued cannot now be found by the said Masonic Bank: Now, therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assistant treasurer of Assistant treas- U10 United States at New York be, and he is hereby, authorizedto ***6* 9* Nwé gg'; waive, in this particular case only, so much of the provisions of section f.,‘f,";”:f€f 3,: 0, ,,,,0 '€hiI"ty-four hundred and seventy-seven of the Revised Statutes of the Mmm]; c Bank, United States as requires powers of attorney to be dated subsequent to Pittsburgh, Pe. the issue of checks, and that the certificate of acknowledgment of powers of attorney shall show that the officer taking the acknowledgment, `at the time thereof read and fully explained the power of attorney to the person acknowledging the same, and to pay said checks as at present mdorsed to the said Masonic Bank of Pittsburgh. Approved, January 24, 1880. CHAP. 20.-—An act for the relief of Thomas Kearney. Feb. 7, 1880. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting-ofti— Thomas Kear- 061`S of the Treasury, in settling the accounts of Thomas Kearney, 1H3i1G MY-], f ¢0U0ctor for the district of Corpus Christi, in Texas, credit and allow him R° “’ ‘ the sums of twelve thousand iour hundred and seventy dollars and fifty